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  • Birth

  • Arrival: Bronkema Frederick; Born 1 Feb 1934; 1 Leven Terr, Edinburgh 3, Scot.; Student; Intended Stay In UK 10mos (with Wife Marguerite C. Bronkema)

  • Departure: RMS Queen Elizabeth (The Cunard Steam-Ship Co.)

  • Residence: Rv Frederick H Bronkema Birth Date: 1 Feb 1934 Address: 22 N Portland Ave, Ventnor City, NJ, 08406-2247 [780 Riverside Dr Apt 6aa, New York, NY, 10032-7456 (1993)] [PO Box 5204, Princeton, NJ, 08543-5204 (1992)]

  • Residence: PO Box 483

  • Residence: 3465 E Morton St

  • Death

  • Story: Obituary

    <strong>Frederick H. Bronkema</strong>, USA, died 3 April 2005 aged 71.<br>Mr Frederick Bronkema was a Presbyterian and Disciples of Christ missionary and ecumenical worker. In 1965 he marched in Selma, AL with Rev. Martin Luther King. He was committed to working for justice, human rights and reconciliation. In 1968, as a fraternal worker in Portugal, he founded the Centre for Reconciliation in Figueira da Foz, for Protestant-Catholic dialogue and co-operation in the wake of Vatican II. He subsequently worked at Union Seminary in New York, the Centre for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico and the International Documentation Centre in Rome. As a staff member of the Ecumenical Development Co-operative Society, he helped to formulate &ldquo;Oikocredit&rdquo;, which would become the largest non-profit micro-credit institution in the world. He was employed in Honduras by the Christian Commission of Development in Central America but was expelled by that country&rsquo;s military in 1988. He served the final years of his career as director for human rights of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.

  • Burial: Fairlawn Cemetery (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nygreen2/fairlawn_cemetery.htm)

 
 
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